Blog

Creating Beauty with Transit

For me, fare cards represent more than just a way to pay for transit. My MetroCard for riding the NICE bus growing up in New York, then CharlieCard when I rode the MBTA during college stayed among the boring, everyday items needed every time I walked out the door, like my keys, ID, and wallet.

Learn More

Category

Ushering in a new generation of transportation planners

November 17, 2017 by Alex Cohen and Lora Byala

Transportation planning is all about preparing for the future. It’s not uncommon for planners to design rail lines that will not break ground for 40 years, or to create bus routes that won’t exist for 20 years. As we focus ...

Making Public Engagement Informative (and Fun) for All

October 26, 2017 by Sandy Klanfer, Transportation Planner

Transportation as a System – A Planner’s View As transportation planners, it’s our job to think deeply, on a daily basis, about transportation as a system that moves people where they need to go, as quickly, safely, and efficiently as ...

Transit maps –
What makes good design for a variety of uses?

October 13, 2017 by Jarred Toups, Transportation Planner

Transit maps are hot right now – a phrase that I never expected to write. Rapid transit simulation games like Mini Metro win awards for “Excellence in Visual Art” and “Excellence in Design.” [1] Artists now create fantasy metro maps ...

Transit differences between Asia and the US – what could we be doing different?

September 28, 2017 by Jamie Roberts

Jamie started working at Foursquare ITP as a Transportation Planner in July after spending a month in Japan and Korea. Anyone who has been to East Asia will tell you the public transit is far superior to that in the ...

Civil Rights and Public Transit – How do they work together today?

November 29, 2016 by Katie List

From Plessy v. Ferguson to the Montgomery bus boycotts and beyond, public transportation in the U.S. has a long relationship with civil rights; Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 builds on this relationship by establishing a legal connection. How do civil rights and public transportation continue to work together today?

Transformative Transit – One Vision Plan at a Time

November 17, 2016 by David Miller

Transit Vision Plans can and should be actionable blueprints for transforming the landscape of a city or region through innovative planning to help define an actionable vision. Agencies are no longer interested in unattainable transit plans that lay down every ...

Strategic Stakeholder Engagement Supporting Successful Grant Management

November 1, 2016 by Michael Weinberger

The Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant program was created by Congress to stimulate job growth and economic development through the funding of major transportation infrastructure and Intelligent Technology System (ITS) projects. Through a highly competitive process, the National ...

Transit Development Plans – Useful Tool or Dust Collector?

October 27, 2016 by Jessica Alvarez & Joshua Diamond

Recently, along with our partner VHB, we completed a transformative Transit Development Plan (TDP) for Arlington County, Virginia, which showcased our commitment to developing innovative service plans through outside of the box thinking. We developed proposals for a flexible transit ...

From the Classroom to the Client to the Community

September 28, 2016 by Imogen Wirth-Granlund

This summer, two talented graduate student interns joined the team at our headquarters in Rockville, Maryland – Alexis Robinson and Rachel Lesniak. Both contributed immensely to our staff’s work and we are thrilled to keep them on board! Alexis will ...

The Bikeshare Equity Gap
Reflecting on the 2016 Better Bike Share Conference

August 30, 2016 by Andrew Zalewski

How can we promote equity among bikeshare users? This simple question led us to some complex conversations at the 2016 Better Bike Share Conference, held this past June in Philadelphia. The conference explored the intersection between bicycling, public health, social ...

Transit Along Managed Lanes

June 30, 2016 by Jessica Alvarez

Managed Lanes are an emerging concept in the transportation realm as an effective way to reduce congestion and maximize person throughput on highway facilities. It used to be that the mere mention of toll lanes brought about a sigh of ...

Foursquare ITP Rocks Austin!

June 8, 2016 by Lora Byala & Shana Johnson

From May 18th to 20th, Foursquare ITP President Lora Byala and Vice President Shana Johnson attended the Women’s Transportation Seminar International (WTS) conference in Austin, Texas and presented our work on the Maryland Transit Administration’s BaltimoreLink bus system redesign. Lora ...

Page 5 of 6
1 … 3 4 5 6